Facts about Henry Ward Beecher

Summary

Henry Ward Beecher was a famous Clergyman from USA, who lived between June 24, 1813 and March 8, 1887. He became 73 years old.

Biography

He was a North American clergyman and social reformer, the son of Lyman Beecher and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Beecher became the 1847 employee of the Congregational Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. He worked vigorously for the slaves emancipation, and also acted for the temperance movement and fought against political corruption. Its greatest fame he gained as a preacher.

His writings include Bible Studies (1878), Evolution and Religion (1887).

Zodiac etc.

He is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 93 quotes who is written / told by Henry, under the main topics: Motivational, Art, Mom, Power, Faith.

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away"

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship"

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one"